Akkadian Royal Letters in Later Mesopotamian Tradition.

Akkadian Royal Letters in Later Mesopotamian Tradition.

Study of royal letters of uncertain authenticity in circulation in ancient Mesopotamia ca. 700-100 BCE. Contains catalogue, text editions and a systematic assessment of their reliability as historical sources for the reigns and events they depict.

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Bibliographic Details
Superior document:Cuneiform Monographs ; v.55
:
Frazer, Mary.
Place / Publishing House:Boston : : BRILL,, 2024.
©2024.
Year of Publication:2024
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Cuneiform Monographs
Physical Description:1 online resource (593 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover
  • ‎Half-Title Page
  • ‎Series Title Page
  • ‎Title Page
  • ‎Copyright Page
  • ‎Contents
  • ‎Acknowledgements
  • ‎Bibliographic Abbreviations
  • ‎Tables
  • ‎Figures
  • ‎Chapter 1. Introduction
  • ‎1.1. An Exceptional Cuneiform Letter
  • ‎1.2. A Larger Phenomenon
  • ‎1.3. History of Research and Goals of This Study
  • ‎1.3.1. History of Research
  • ‎1.3.2. Goals of This Study
  • ‎1.4. The Text Corpus
  • ‎1.4.1. Criteria for Inclusion in the Corpus
  • ‎1.4.2. Cataloguing and Subdividing the Corpus
  • ‎1.5. Structure of This Study
  • ‎Chapter 2. The Authenticity of Letters A4-A17
  • ‎2.1. The Significance of the Authenticity Question
  • ‎2.1.1. The Authenticity of the Letters and Their Reliability as Sources for a History of Events
  • ‎2.1.2. The Authenticity of the Letters and Later Communities' Engagement with the Past
  • ‎2.2. Problems with the Authenticity Question
  • ‎2.2.1. A General Problem
  • ‎2.2.2. Corpus-Specific Problems
  • ‎2.2.3. A Way Forward
  • ‎2.3. Establishing Inauthenticity
  • ‎2.3.1. Anachronisms
  • ‎2.3.2. "Plagiarisms"
  • ‎2.3.3. External Evidence
  • ‎2.4. Weighing the Evidence: Subjective Assessments
  • ‎2.5. Analyses of A4-A13, A15-A17, Letter-by-Letter
  • ‎2.5.1. Letter A4: Very Probably Inauthentic
  • ‎2.5.2. Letter A5: Case Unclear
  • ‎2.5.3. Letter A6: Possibly Inauthentic
  • ‎2.5.4. Letter A7: Probably Inauthentic
  • ‎2.5.5. Letter A8: Probably Inauthentic
  • ‎2.5.6. Letter A9: Possibly Inauthentic
  • ‎2.5.7. Letter A10: Probably Inauthentic
  • ‎2.5.8. Letters A11, A12, and A13: Probably Inauthentic
  • ‎2.5.9. Letter A15: Case Unclear
  • ‎2.5.10. Letter A16: Probably Inauthentic
  • ‎2.5.11. Letter A17: Probably Inauthentic
  • ‎2.6. Summary and Conclusion
  • ‎Editions
  • ‎A Note on the Text Editions
  • ‎Category A. Letters with Identifiable Historical Settings.
  • ‎Letter A1. Gilgamesh, "King of Ur" to an Unknown King
  • ‎Letter A2. A King of the Isin i Dynasty to a King of the Babylon i Dynasty
  • ‎Letter A3. Samsu-ilūna to Enlil-nādin-šumi
  • ‎Letter A4. Kurigalzu to Unidentifiable Recipients
  • ‎Letter A5. Unidentifiable Sender to Nazi-Maruttaš
  • ‎Letter A6. Adad-šuma-uṣur to Aššur-nārārī iii and Ilī-padâ
  • ‎Letter A7. A Middle Elamite King to "the Babylonians"(?)
  • ‎Letter A8. "The Babylonians" (?) to a Middle Elamite King
  • ‎Letter A9. A King of the Isin ii Dynasty to an Assyrian King
  • ‎Letter A10. Nebuchadnezzar i to "the Babylonians"
  • ‎Letter A11. The "Obedient Borsippans" to Assurbanipal
  • ‎Letter A12. Assurbanipal to "the Babylonians"
  • ‎Letter A13. "The Babylonians" (?) to Assurbanipal
  • ‎Letter A14. Šamaš-šuma-ukīn to Assurbanipal
  • ‎Letter A15. A Late Assyrian King (Assurbanipal?) to Šadûnu
  • ‎Letter A16. Sîn-šarra-iškun to Nabopolassar, "His Lord"
  • ‎Letter A17. Nabopolassar to Sîn-šarra-iškun
  • ‎Category B. Letters with Uncertain Historical Settings
  • ‎Letter B1. An Officer to a (Kassite?) King of Babylon
  • ‎Letter B2. A (Middle?) Assyrian King to a (Middle?) Babylonian King
  • ‎Letter B3. Extracts from One or More Letters, including One from a Group to a Superior
  • ‎Letter B4. Extracts from Letters with Different Correspondents, including One between Kings
  • ‎Letter B5. Extracts from One or More Letters from a Foreign King(?) to the Babylonians(?)
  • ‎Letter B6. A Travelling Official to His Superior
  • ‎Letter B7. Extracts from One or More Letters including One from a Group to a Superior
  • ‎Letter B8. A Subordinate to a Provincial Governor (and a King?)
  • ‎Letter B9. Letter about Cultic Matters
  • ‎Category C. Possible Letters
  • ‎Text C1. A Fugitive from the Land of Edamaraṣ
  • ‎Text C2. "Strengthen the Battle Equipment!".
  • ‎Text C3. "I Will Drag the Loot of the Assyrians to the Steppe!"
  • ‎Text C4. Nazi-Maruttaš and Šubši-mešrê-Šakkan
  • ‎Text C5. "Let them Give One Chariot Fighter"
  • ‎Text C6. One King Addresses Another about Tribute from the West
  • ‎Text C7. The Assyro-Babylonian Border Dispute in the Eighth Century
  • ‎Text C8. Mukīn-zēri, a King of Elam, and Inconsistent Behaviour
  • ‎Text C9. An Official to a King of the Land of Akkad (?)
  • ‎Text C10. Assurbanipal to "the Babylonians" (?)
  • ‎Text C11. The Cuneiform Elite 1
  • ‎Text C12. The Cuneiform Elite 2
  • ‎Text C13. "I Shall Listen to You"
  • ‎Text C14. A Successful Military Campaign
  • ‎Appendix 1. A5-A17 as Potential Sources for Political History
  • ‎Appendix 2. The Hypothetical Transmissions of Letters A5-A17
  • ‎Bibliography
  • ‎Concordance of Cuneiform Sources Edited in CUMO 55
  • ‎Index of Names
  • ‎Index of Titles and Epithets
  • ‎Index of Subjects
  • Back Cover.

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